Cornbread season is the time of year where we’re focused on the future, where we’re intentional about the seeds we sow, and we are optimistic about what we will reap in the harvest season where everything culminates at the “Corn Bred Cornbread Festival” the last Saturday of July. All...
More than 90 percent of the harvest area is for fodder crops—that is, corn (approximately 50 percent), oats (25 percent), grasses (15–16 percent); the soy bean crops are usually the first or second largest in the USA. The major goal of animal husbandry is meat: 7.2 million head ...
1971: Buc Wheats cereal Buc Wheats was a cereal released by General Mills described as “corn flakes mixed with dark buckwheat” and glazed with maple. However, controversy erupted when General Mills replaced that maple glaze with honey instead. The productwas pulled from shelvesin 1982. 1972:...
It's not quite Father's Day yet, but we don't need to wait until the third Sunday of June each year to remind us of all of the things our dads provide us with throughout the year. Including a whole host of 'Dad-isms'.
The golden wheat heads that glisten as harvest nears in one field in north-central Iowa mimic the early 1900s, when wheat was an Iowa crop kingpin. Then again, it’s 2024. Wheat faded as a cash crop long ago, replaced by a sea of soybeans and corn. ...
It's not quite Father's Day yet, but we don't need to wait until the third Sunday of June each year to remind us of all of the things our dads provide us with throughout the year. Including a whole host of 'Dad-isms'.
As people finished up their silage harvest, people started to look to start the corn grain harvest. So far, less than 10 percent of fields in the region have been combined. We're starting to see a few combines out there starting to roll. That's probably the biggest thing that's going...
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Harvestville Farm, Facebook Harvestville Farm Harvestville Farm 1977 Highway 2, Donnellson Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Featuring a general store, corn mazes, a jumping pillow, photo ops, games, kids' activities, tractor wag...